Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

[David Reyes Samblas Martinez]

can you post the list of files on p3?, also the contents of append-GTA02

2009/9/12 Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I use Qi as the bootloader on my FreeRunner.
> I have sevaral partitions on my SDcard:
> p1 - vfat data partition (only data, nothing else)
> p2 - ext3 primary partition, this is my main os. Currently holds QtMoko v8)
> p3 - this is aother ext3 primary partition, for me to keep a backup os on.
> Currently, it holds a copy of QtMoko v8.
> p4 - swap, 128Megs
>
> First I thought that the "press AUX" trick from the Qi wiki page would let
> me select which partition to boot from, but it seems like it only selects
> kernel, so not useful for me in this situation.
>
> Then I read about the /boot/noboot-GTA02 file, so I did 'touch
> /boot/noboot-GTA02' (when /dev/mmcblk0p2 was my root partition).
> Now Qi skips the p2 partition, but after that  it justs sits therr, it won't
> boot the p3 partition.
>
> What can be wrong?
> And how do I fix it?
> (I have checked, and the files in  /boot and elsehwere looks correct)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Torfinn Ingolfsen
>
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